A Hong Kong court handed down a guilty verdict on Monday in the landmark national security trial of Jimmy Lai, a media tycoon and pro-democracy activist whose case highlights shrinking tolerance for dissent in the city.

週一，在對媒體大亨、民主活動人士黎智英進行的里程碑式國家安全案審判中，香港一家法院作出了有罪判決。此案凸顯出香港對異見的容忍度正在下降。

Officials in Hong Kong and mainland China had cast Mr. Lai, 78, as the mastermind of antigovernment demonstrations that engulfed the former British colony in 2019, posing a serious challenge to Beijing’s authority. Prosecutors said he colluded with foreign governments, including the United States, to target China and Hong Kong with sanctions.

香港和中國大陸的官員指控78歲的黎智英是2019年席捲香港這一前英國殖民地的反政府示威活動的主腦，對北京的權威構成了嚴重挑戰。檢察官表示，他與包括美國在內的外國政府勾結，對中國和香港實施制裁。

Mr. Lai pleaded not guilty to two counts of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces,” an offense that can be punished by up to life in prison, and not guilty to a count of conspiracy to publish seditious material in Apple Daily, the now-shuttered Chinese-language newspaper he founded in 1995. On Monday, a court found him guilty on all three counts.

黎智英對兩項「串謀勾結外國勢力」罪名（最高可判終身監禁）及一項通過其創辦的《蘋果日報》（現已停刊）發布煽動刊物的罪名均作無罪抗辯。本週一，法庭裁定其三項罪名成立。

His legal team argued that his calls for sanctions ended when the 2020 national security law took effect.

他的法律團隊主張，隨著2020年國家安全法生效，他對制裁的呼籲就終止了。

Hong Kong’s “one country two systems” legal framework is meant to guarantee the territory some autonomy from Beijing and freedom of speech until 2047. But critics say the case shows how the framework has been undercut by two national security laws — one imposed by Beijing in 2020, the other introduced by the Hong Kong government last year — that were responses to the protests.

香港的「一國兩制」法律框架本該保證該地區在2047年之前享有一定程度的自治權和言論自由。但批評者指出，此案揭示了該框架如何被兩部回應抗議活動的國家安全法削弱——一部由北京於2020年頒佈，另一部由香港政府去年推出。

In 2022, a Hong Kong court sentenced Mr. Lai to more than five years in prison for fraud, saying he had violated the terms of a lease agreement related to Apple Daily, a persistent critic of Beijing.

2022年，香港法院以欺詐罪判處黎智英五年多監禁，稱其違反了與《蘋果日報》相關的租賃協議條款。該報長期批評北京當局。